Re: package naming (Was: [racket-users] Re: GLPK: how many chickens to invite to your picnic?)

2017-06-23 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Deren Dohoda wrote on 06/23/2017 06:52 PM: I already screwed up my uploaded package by using a plural and then later read that the style guide suggests singulars. Conscientiousness in a community is admirable. But my opinion is to not worry too much about that particular perceived faux pas. :

Re: package naming (Was: [racket-users] Re: GLPK: how many chickens to invite to your picnic?)

2017-06-23 Thread Deren Dohoda
I already screwed up my uploaded package by using a plural and then later read that the style guide suggests singulars. Embarrassing. On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Jack Firth wrote on 06/23/2017 04:47 PM: > >> Pot-stirring question: do you think it would make more sense

Re: package naming (Was: [racket-users] Re: GLPK: how many chickens to invite to your picnic?)

2017-06-23 Thread David Storrs
On this subject: I have some code that I've been meaning to post for quite a while, but I have held off because it's currently in the 'dstorrs' namespace and the package docs request that you not name a package after the developer. I can rename it easily enough but I don't want to change all the

package naming (Was: [racket-users] Re: GLPK: how many chickens to invite to your picnic?)

2017-06-23 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Jack Firth wrote on 06/23/2017 04:47 PM: Pot-stirring question: do you think it would make more sense to name the collection `math/glpk` instead of just `glpk`? You're exactly right, it's a controversial question. :) In general, for a flexible, decentralized ecology of third-party packages, I

[racket-users] Re: GLPK: how many chickens to invite to your picnic?

2017-06-23 Thread Jack Firth
On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 10:13:36 AM UTC-7, 'John Clements' via users-redirect wrote: > Doing some operations research in Racket? Frustrated by the lack of linear > programming libraries? Well, be frustrated no more! > > Actually, this is just a package announcement: I built a nice clean > o

Re: [racket-users] GLPK: how many chickens to invite to your picnic?

2017-06-23 Thread 'John Clements' via users-redirect
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 10:25, Robby Findler wrote: > > Docs link with examples? :) But of course! http://docs.racket-lang.org/glpk/index.html John > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:13 PM 'John Clements' via users-redirect > wrote: > Doing some operations research in Racket? Frustrated by the l

[racket-users] GLPK: how many chickens to invite to your picnic?

2017-06-23 Thread 'John Clements' via users-redirect
Doing some operations research in Racket? Frustrated by the lack of linear programming libraries? Well, be frustrated no more! Actually, this is just a package announcement: I built a nice clean one-function interface to GLPK, the Gnu Linear Programming Kit, allowing primal simplex to do optimi

Re: [racket-users] Change how to print builtins

2017-06-23 Thread David Storrs
For myself, I would like some better pretty-printing of nested data structures and for structs to have their field names included with the values so that they printed in a more hash-like format. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Sam Waxman wrote: > Hello, > > I was having trouble figuring out how